Umai’s compassion and dedication to volunteering inspires medical career - video Dailymotion

Umai’s compassion and dedication to volunteering inspires medical career

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00:00About two years ago I joined the Alistair hospital by volunteering in the Ward 3B so

00:11I volunteered as a lunch volunteer so my job was to actually see patients and ask what they want

00:16for lunch so after that I wanted a bit of diversity to the world so that's why I came here as a meeter

00:22and greeter and I'm thankful to my past self because it's been a wonderful experience and

00:28I've seen so many patients receive so many so much gratitude from the patients and it is something

00:35I enjoy to this very day so I got into Queens for medicine by using my volunteering experience so

00:42I'm just thankful that I'm doing this I'm pursuing medicine I wanted to understand that medicine is

00:47about people and it's patient-centered so by volunteering I understood you know the person

00:53not only has a disease but many circumstances affecting their health so that's the first key

01:00factor I understood and secondly the scientific knowledge that you study is not enough for

01:07medicine you also need that empathy that compassion and that is exactly what I developed by being in

01:13this role and I'm very very grateful for that try something new like volunteering it gives you immense

01:20satisfaction but also that interaction the patients so I believe that's the best privilege you can

01:26have and I really believe that more and more people should volunteer and give back to society